Robert Morse (Chief Data Strategist. U.S. News), Corrections to the 2024 Best Colleges Rankings:
U.S. News has recalculated the numerical ranks of 213 schools due to a code anomaly.
After publication of the 2024 Best Colleges, an anomaly in the code used to output those rankings was discovered. As a result of correcting the anomaly, the rankings of 213 schools have changed from what was published on September 18, 2023. We therefore published updated rankings for those schools on October 27, 2023.
Below is a listing of each school impacted by the anomaly in the code and a notice of what that school’s rank was upon publication and what its rank is after the correction. The schools are sorted by their category and then by their corrected rank. Note that some schools in this list whose individual ranks changed continue to only have their ranking ranges display on usnews.com, which is the practice followed for schools placing in the bottom 10% of the rankings. …
Providing actionable data so that students can make one of the most important decisions they will ever make is a critical part of our mission at U.S. News. We have updated this data to ensure students have the best and most current information available to them when making their decisions about where to attend college.



